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How I Made A Proper Skid Plate For My Greeves.


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Ok so i am in the midst of my greeves/honda project. Taking a honda tl125 engine and transplanting it into a greeves (what i think is a pathfinder) chassis. I call it Gronda.... I have heard of Hondeeves projects but i wanted to be different.

So while it was down to bare chassis I decided that this thing needs a proper skid plate. My dad has another path finder and two other Anglians and his designs were not to my liking. This frame was my christmas present from him. I cant start to tell you how excited i was... <<<i am such a trials nerd!

So here is what I did. I acutally did this earlier this winter but just getting around to posting it.

I did this with steel because of my lack of aluminum welding skills but aluminum would be better for weight.

First you need to start out with the bare frame.

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Then get yourself some 1/16" angle iron and clamp it to the frame.

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Then i grab my trusty straight edge and try to eye ball the straight edge on the frame.

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Then I made a second mark perpendicular to the angle iron.

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After i cut out that chunk, I bent the iron then lined it up with my frame. Now i am leaving about 1/8 inch of space so that my frame and my pan are close to even. You can change it to suit your needs. I repeated this process untill i had 2 bends for my iron.

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I bring my newly bent iron over to the bench and weld her up.

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Flip it around to verify that i had good penetration and to verify that the back side was nice and flat. I didnt want to bolt up to any welds. In this case i didnt have good penetration so i patched it up later on.

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Now this is where i got either way to excited or I had a few beers in me... I dont know but some how i didn't get a picture of me welding my plate onto the angle iron. I took 1/8" plate steel and clamped it to the bottom of the angle iron. I left a bit of a gap at the frame as i was welding on both sides. I would weld down the length of the iron on onside then down the other. After a length was completed I used clamps to help bend the plate steel to the next length of iron. Weld that up and continue untill the plate was securely attached. I curved down the end of the plate on the front edge to make it pretty. I removed the front and rear frame bolts. Then i marked and drilled the plate to use the oem fasteners. To make it just a bit stronger i added one bolt in the middle which required me to drill a hole in the oem frame. Heres the pic of the welded piece.

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After that i repeated the process for the other side then powder coated them both in flat black.

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Both sides are independant of each other so one is a bit forward of the other..... ehhh its functional is my thoughts. It should be solid enough to ride trials. It took me a solid weekend of tinkering to get this done. I will update the project as it gets closer to completion.

Have a great day.

--Biff

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Guest majestyman340

Looks nicely done...............but wonder if its that good an idea to modify something as rare as a Pathfinder with alloy beam front down tube?

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This picture is ALMOST complete, as these are just the prototypes for low CG stability! To complete this project, you need to let the ol'lady pile just a few more old clothes, shoes and **** in the garage so you can move the gas cans just a bit closer, invite Zipper over so there are more beer cans in the floor(a few cigar butts) and make a 2x3 area for the new Tig machine you got just for that project.

At least you are learning!

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